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Today's puzzle has you smelling the ocean for Clue.
Find our guide to New York Times Connections answers and hints for May 29 below.
Spoilers lie ahead for Connections #1,083. Only read on if you want to know today's Connections answers.
Plus, we're including a reflection on yesterday's puzzle, #1,082, in case you're reading this in a different time zone.
Alternatively, visit our how to play NYT Connections guide for tips on how to solve the puzzle without our help.
What is Connections
Solving Connections relies on identifying connecting categories among 16 words. Each category's difficulty level is represented by a color; yellow is the easiest grouping, and purple is the most challenging. Once you've made 4 mistakes in your guesses, the answers will be revealed, so hints can be helpful.
Every day, we update this article with Connections hints and tips to help you find all 4 of today's answers so you can keep your Connections streak going. And if the clues aren't enough, you'll find all four answers below, with the category titles and the correlating words.
Today's Connections answer — hints to help you solve it
Today's Connection Grid and Words
- Powder
- Father
- Reading
- Atlantic
- Pennsylvania
- Billiard
- Pacific
- Bo
- Ammonia
- Protactinium
- Wet Dog
- Drawing
- Southern
- Durian
- Public Address
- Arctic
We have the Connections categories below but here's a hint without the actual titles. Try this out:
- 🟨 Yellow: Seas
- 🟩 Green: Aromas
- 🟦 Blue: Clue
- 🟪 Purple: Paw
Today's Connections Group Hints
If you need hints to solve the groupings, then here are the themes of each, based on the order of difficulty:
- 🟨 Yellow: Oceans
- 🟩 Green: Sources of distinctive smells
- 🟦 Blue: Kinds of rooms in a mansion
- 🟪 Purple: What "pa" might refer to
These hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Connections answers. If not, then you can read on for bigger clues; or, if you just want to know the answer, then scroll down further.
Today's Connections answers
The Connections answers on May 29 for puzzle #1,083 are significantly harder than yesterday's puzzle, with the Connections Companion rating this puzzle's difficulty at 3.3 out of 5.
- 🟨 Oceans: Arctic, atlantic, pacific, southern
- 🟩 Sources of distinctive smells: Ammonia, bo, durian, wet dog
- 🟦 Kinds of rooms in a mansion: Billiard, drawing, powder, reading
- 🟪 What "pa" might refer to: Father, Pennsylvania, protactinium, public address
With 3-rated and harder Connections puzzles sometimes I'm not sure what will be blue or yellow since all the categories are a bit harder.
So when I saw drawing and thought drawing room, I wasn't sure of powder room, reading room and billiard room would be green, yellow or blue set. Turns out it was blue.
I followed up with the oceans with southern, arctic, atlantic and pacific.
Durian and wet dog were obvious as what I thought of as "bad odors." Ammonia stuck out from there. Bo or BO I never clicked as what I think they were going for as body odor. I guess I've never thought of BO in that manner. If I were to write it, I would do B.O. So this spelling threw me.
I did think of PA earlier with Pennsylvania and Public Address, and I should have inferred protactinium is PA, but it also shows I need to brush up on my periodic table because I can never remember the abbreviations.
Yesterday's Connections answers
- 🟨 Small community: Commune, hamlet, township, village
- 🟩 Classic board games: Battleship, operation, othello, trouble
- 🟦 Homophones of ways of looking: Aye, lear, pier, stair
- 🟪 Ending in the "Little Women" March sisters: Banjo, macbeth, monogamy, nutmeg
Reading this in a later time zone? Here are the Connections answers for game #1,082, which had a difficulty rating of 1.8 out of 5.
I admit to rushing through today's puzzle, maybe had I slowed down I would have seen the hard sets earlier. Ah well.
Media and papers hit me first which put me in mind of newspapers. News and press were quick pick ups from there.
I did take a gym based strike when I tried squat, bar, bench, and lift. Twas not to be.
I stuck with squat to get to stoop, duck and then hunch for the yellow group.
Returning to bar and bench got me the courtroom idea which I followed with podium and stand.
This left ski jump, ski lift, ski lodge and ski slop as my final four.
